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Matters cosmic and earthly intersect in Slatkin's latest visit to the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Thomas Søndergård, great and not so great, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in their first Hollywood Bowl concert of the summer. 

Quinn Kelsey shines as Verdi’s court jester as Tomer Zvulun's production opens in Los Angeles. 

Leading his former orchestra and soloist Pekka Kuusisto, Esa-Pekka Salonen bookends his San Francisco commission with two crowd-pleasers from the standard repertory. 

 Michael Cavanagh's sleek new production, designed by Erhard Rom and conducted by James Conlon, transforms the 18th-century opera into a Broadway musical, score by Mozart.

A monster Mahler concert at Disney Hall, with guest conductor Earl Lee stealing the show in the Resurrection Symphony.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic open their “Mahler Grooves” festival, featuring Simon Keenlyside and Ekaterina Gubanova in Des Knaben Wunderhorn. 

Seong-Jin Cho proves rigid in Ravel, but the LAPO and guest conductor Paavo Järvi play Brahms–Schoenberg and Bacewicz to the hilt. 

A memorable, impassioned performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder in Disney Hall. 

Gustavo Dudamel selects a trio of works by Latin American composers for a colorful and extravagant evening at the LA Phil.

At Disney Hall, Gustavo Dudamel and Lang Lang open the LA Phil's season with Rachmaninov and Ginastera. 

Tough, punchy Stravinsky from guest conductor Teddy Abrams and violinist Leila Josefowicz.

Denis Kozhukhin crushes Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, but guest conductor Ryan Bancroft is overwhelmed in Shostakovich 10. 

Angela Meade and Russell Thomas provide the vocal fireworks in LA Opera's staging of David Hockney's beloved production designs. 

Gustavo Dudamel's concept of a semi-staged Fidelio in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre gives a voice to Beethoven so enormous that those with hearing impairments can surely hear.

Gabriela Oritz' Altar de cuerda shows off Maria Dueñas' technical dazzle, her incomparable theatrical timing and her ability to completely commit to the music she is playing. 

Karina Canellakis comes along at just the right moment to see what a possible contender for the open LA Phil post could bring. 

Shawna Lucey's production from San Francisco Opera misses the mark as it premieres to a packed Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. 

Tilson Thomas's Petrushka is refreshingly curious and occasionally magical, recalling Bernstein in his dazzling New York Phil days. 

The best moments come at either end of this underwhelming LA Phil concert.  

A fully-staged performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold transforms Walt Disney Concert Hall to an opera house where the orchestra is the star. 

Lorena Maza's vibrant production of Gabriela Lena Frank's 2021 opera about Frida Kahlo and her relationship with Diego Rivera reaches Los Angeles.

Gustavo Dudamel's program ends with a nod to musical worlds outside Disney Hall as indie star Sylvan Estrada sings three songs pulsing with hope and energized by activism.

Jaime Martín keeps Mozart's Jupiter flowing with the elegant, life-enhancing energy that characterized the LACO under Sir Neville Marriner... just as stylish with perhaps more temperament. 

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the LA Phil in the world premiere of Saad Haddad's cinematic Aysheen. 

Gustavo Dudamel pairs Stravinsky's Firebird with Villa-Lobos' rarely heard avian symphonic poem, Uirapurú. 

Lucas Meachem’s portrayal suggests a paraphrase of what another Hollywood Don Juan, Errol Flynn in 1949, said to his Leporello in excusing his escapades. “My dear friend, there’s a little bit of Don Giovanni in every man, and since I am Don Giovanni, there must be more of it in me!” 

The pure and clean sound universe of Sibelius shines as Osmo Vänskä visits Disney Hall for the weekend. 

Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta leads The Los Angeles Philharmonic in an unforgettable reading of Mahler's massive symphony, played with incredible virtuosity and led with remarkable assurance.

John Adams' opera, in its third revision since its 2017, receives an outstanding concert performance in Walt Disney Concert Hall under the composer's baton. 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic soars in Mahler's profound Ninth Symphony, conducted by the legendary Michael Tilson Thomas.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its former Music Director thunder in Disney Hall in the latest stop on their US tour.

Thomas Adès' score to Wayne McGregor's ballet The Dante Project transfers to the concert hall in Los Angeles. 

The soloists and LA Master Chorale lead the way in a performance of Mozart's “Great” C minor Mass conducted by Zubin Mehta. 

The Marsch in Berg's Three Orchestra Pieces was engulfed in the same chaos that devastated the composer's world a century ago and is now threatening to devastate ours.

Julia Adolphe's new violin concerto, Woven Loom, Silver Spindle built impact and structure out of the instability between the brightly spinning realm of the violin and the darker, all-encompassing framework of the orchestra. 

Francisco Negrín gives his singers little help in a dark, boxy new staging, put together at frantic, last minute speed. 

The crossed warning searchlights were out and aircraft mostly stayed away, as Gemma New and the Los Angeles Philharmonic got to know each better in Beethoven and Schumann.

Angela Meade fills in for an indisposed soprano in Los Angeles Opera’s company debut of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux.

Dudamel starts off the inaugural concert in the LA Phil’s Ives symphony cycle. 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Salonen look back at the dwindling twilight years of the Weimar Republic. 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Salonen inaugurates their musical retrospective of Weimar Germany. 

Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice enjoys its world premiere at LA Opera. 

Zubin Mehta returns to Disney Hall, demonstrating the multifaceted implications of Wagner and his “music of tomorrow”.

The Academy of Ancient Music played with such stylistic elegance, charm and sheer physical beauty that it was like hearing I Musici and Virtuosi di Roma for the first time in this repertoire in the 1950s.

Altogether it was the sort of music Gerard Hoffnung might have composed if he had ever held a serious music festival.

Matthew Bourne's brilliant rendition of Swan Lake makes this classic story ballet refreshing, contemporary and emotional.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic brought back its Conductor Emeritus, Zubin Mehta, for an outstanding performance of Mahler's “Resurrection” Symphony as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations. 

The Day features music by David Lang and choreography by Lucinda Childs as former ballerina Wendy Whelan and cellist Maya Beiser perform together in this work contemplating memory, mortality, and aging.